A few publishing deals...

From today's Publisher's Lunch:

Winner of the 2008 Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition IN THE SHADOW OF GOTHAM Stefanie Pintoff's next two Detective Ziele historical mysteries, set in early twentieth century New York City, to Kelley Ragland at Minotaur, by David Hale Smith at DHS Literary (World).

William Boyd's ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS, in which a man wrongly accused of murder sheds his identity and goes underground in contemporary London, to Gillian Blake at Harper, by Amanda Urban at ICM (US).

Thomas E. Kennedy's IN THE COMPANY OF ANGELS, one of four books comprising his Copenhagen Quartet set in different seasons in the Danish capital city, this one set in summer, focusing on two damaged characters struggling to heal and regain normalcy, to Anton Mueller at Bloomsbury, for publication in Winter 2010, followed by a second novel from the quarter in Winter 2011, by Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates (US; UK).